 Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 125by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Sonnets, English - 1924 - 336 pages
...heaven that leads men to this hell. cxxx A f Y mistress' eyes are nothing like ' the sun ' ; IV 1 ' Coral ' is far more red than her lips' red : If '...head. I have seen 'roses' damask'd red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some ' perfumes ' is there more delight Than in the... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. TIIS Still ' to be neat, still to be drest, As you...causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not soun damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - Dramatists, English - 1923 - 720 pages
...his fair doth rehearse. And in Sonnet 130 he laughs at the style of the conventional sonneteer: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask 'd red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks. That he should feel this revolt at... | |
 | American literature - 1925 - 806 pages
...which peculiarly irritates the stern mentors of our latterday morals. He can write to his mistress: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask 'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | James Agate - English essays - 1925 - 286 pages
...and a single prose writer, who shall, however, be the greatest in their kind. Says Shakespeare : " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. . . . and then goes on to make unflattering comparison between his roses and the damask of the lady's... | |
 | Georges Auguste Connes - 1927 - 294 pages
...is fair that is not full so black." Certainly he has no illusions about this female devil, — " My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ; Coral is...such roses see I in her cheeks ; And in some perfumes there is more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...false esteem: Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe, That every tongue says beauty should look so. a craggy bay After the tempest. Such applause was heard 290 As Mammon ended, and damasked, red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; . And in some perfumes is there more... | |
 | Aldous Huxley - British and Irish fiction (Fictional works by one author). - 1928 - 450 pages
...but it's equally pure from the chemist's point of view. How does that sonnet of Shakespeare's go? "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is...delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. . . . "And so on. He'd taken the poets too literally and was reacting. Let him be a warning to you."... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Poetry - 1928 - 1390 pages
...having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream All this the world well knows; yet...wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more... | |
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